• Did you know that one in four people with a science degree now living in America were born abroad?

Exports deemed via H-1B workers. Some ideas from the article: "Inside Track" published in "InfoWorld" magazine, 20 Nov 2000.

• Obtaining an H-1B visa for your foreign-national employees may not be enough. In some instances, companies may also need to obtain an export license before allowing certain H-1B employees to work on some controlled technologies, including biometrics identifiers and semiconductors.
• When a company shares knowledge, services, or technology with a foreign national in the United States, there is a deemed export, ...Foreign nationals include H-1B employees but not permanent residence or "green card" employees.
• "The HR department needs to consider during the hiring phase if a deemed export license will be needed for an H-1B employee, ...".
• Processes for deemed export license review should be built in at other business phases, such as assembling teams for new projects. In addition, companies must be concerned about not only deemed exports to their own H-1B employees but to those of their suppliers, customers, and strategic technical partners.

H-1B report. Some ideas from an H-1B study, by Herb Lin. The US Congress hired the National Academy of Sciences to conduct the study. National Academy of Sciences is a nonprofit private organization that advises the federal government on scientific and technical issues. Herb Lin is a study director of the academy's National Research Council. The study was released in November 2000. Some details about the study can be found in the "EE Times" magazine, Issue 1142, 27 Nov 2000.

• IT growth in America will slow down if employers cannot get H-1B workers.
• Immigrant technical workers will be needed until the U.S. educational system turns out more technically skilled workers.
• An important issue raised by the report was the mismatch between the H-1B visas and "green cards". US has not changed the "green card" rules, so the H-1B people cannot get green cards within the necessary time frame. H-1B visas limit visitors' stays to six years, often too short a time to obtain a "green card" that would confer permanent status on the foreign worker.